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* ''Film/{{Rambo}}'': The war that goes on inside every soldier.

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* ''Film/{{Rambo}}'': ''Film/RamboIV'': The war that goes on inside every soldier.
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* ''Film/TheBansheesOfInisherin'':
** Loneliness and how it makes people increasingly bitter and vindictive.
** Is it more meaningful to live a simple life based around kindness towards others, or to pursue success and greatness even if that means facing disappointment?


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* ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'': The question of whether or not life is meaningful in a universe of infinite possibilities. If nothing matters, the only thing that matters is finding happiness with the people in our lives.


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* ''Film/Parasite'': CapitalismIsBad, and it inherently pits the poor against one another to fight for scraps from the rich.


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* ''Film/ThePowerOfTheDog'': Masculine ideals and the destructive cost of trying to live up to them.
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* ''Film/CrimsonPeak:'': Love, and how it can bring joy or [[LoveMakesYouEvil horror]] for those who seek it.

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* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'':
** The simplest philosophies can be the most meaningful. A simple philosophy may very well save the world.
** Art, passion for life, and ThePowerOfFriendship are just as important to the world as education, leadership, and productivity; in fact, they may be more important than you think.
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* ''Film/DogSoldiers'': The camaraderie [[TrueCompanions between]] [[BandOfBrothers soldiers]]; contrast and combination of militaristic strategy and werewolf savagery, and [[BrokenMasquerade undeniable revelation of the supernatural]].
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* ''Film/EventHorizon'': Grief, guilt, corruption and redemption.
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* ''HelloMaryLouPromNightII'': Loss of innocence, whether wantonly, involuntarily or grudgingly, and the futility of burying one's past.

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* ''HelloMaryLouPromNightII'': ''Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII'': Loss of innocence, whether wantonly, involuntarily or grudgingly, grudgingly; and the futility of burying one's past.
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* ''Film/GhostbustersII'': While vitriol leads ultimately to destruction, benevolent endeavours may turn the tide.


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* ''HelloMaryLouPromNightII'': Loss of innocence, whether wantonly, involuntarily or grudgingly, and the futility of burying one's past.
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* ''Film/JurassicPark'': The fragility of man's control over nature.

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* ''Film/{{Footloose}}'':
** Fighting for your rights in the face of unfair policies.
** The words you say ''can'' have consequences. A CultOfPersonality, [[UnwantedFalseFaith even one you didn't mean to start]], can turn a society of men into monsters.
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*** '''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''': How being imperfect somehow doesn’t necessarily mean that it has no value.

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*** '''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''': How being imperfect somehow doesn’t necessarily mean that it has no value.



*** ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantiumania'': The loss of time to a love one and how making up for loss time can affect us both positively and negatively. Also, the choice between acting for the greater good or saving a love one.

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*** ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantiumania'': ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'': The loss of time to a love one and how making up for loss time can affect us both positively and negatively. Also, the choice between acting for the greater good or saving a love one.
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* ''Film/{{Moonlight}}'': Identity and its malleability over time.

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* ''Film/{{Moonlight}}'': ''Film/Moonlight2016'': Identity and its malleability over time.
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* ''Film/{{Paddington}}'': Can one person change a group, a family, or a community for the better? Can people accept those who are radically, fundamentally different, even if they struggle to integrate?

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* ''Film/{{Paddington}}'': ''Film/Paddington2014'': Can one person change a group, a family, or a community for the better? Can people accept those who are radically, fundamentally different, even if they struggle to integrate?
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** One for the whole series as well: your life is not set in stone. All of your actions have consequences, intended or not, but you are ultimately free to make your life whatever you want.
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*** ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantiumania'': The loss of time to a love one and how making up for loss time can affect us both positively and negatively. Also, the choice between acting for the greater good or saving a love one.
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*** Phase 4: Remembering those who are no longer around, whether through death or the fact that they simply retired from what they used to do.

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*** Phase 4: Remembering those who are no longer around, whether through death or the fact that they simply retired from what they used to do.do, and how you can [[PassingTheTorch carry on]] [[TakeUpMySword their legacy]].
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** ''Film/GlassOnion'': Complexity versus simplicity. Some mysteries are not so complicated when you don't look too hard for an answer; in fact, the answer is often right in your face..
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*** ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'': The universal means to lift one's spirit and the meaning of gift giving.


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*** ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'': In addition to the themes in the first movie, the stages of grief and how it is not as clear cut as it seems. One moment, there may be denial and anger, the next acceptance and then right back to the previous state of grief. However, even if it does take a long time, that grief can eventually be normalized to move on with life.
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* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'': What it means to be a hero. While Sonic starts the film trying to do good, Tom can rightly see that he's mostly doing it for his own satisfaction and not for the right reasons. Knuckles in parallel, sees himself as the hero, restoring his ancestors' lost honor over the Master Emerald, never stopping to question the long history of bloodshed behind that quest. [[spoiler:Both learn to see the true value in being a hero is not in the glory, but in protecting something.]]
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** ''Film/WerewolfByNight'': Family burden and how it can lead to either something good (like Jack and Man-Thing becoming a surrogate family and look after each other) or bad (like Elsa disowning her remaining family after her father died).
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* ''Film/TrainToBusan'': How [[ApatheticCitizens apathy]], [[SocietyIsToBlame social hierarchy]], and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-interest]] manifest in dire situations.
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** Phase 4: Remembering those who are no longer around, whether through death or the fact that they simply retired from what they used to do.

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* ''Film/IDreamInAnotherLanguage'': Is a dying language really worth keeping alive, or should we focus on current trends? [[spoiler: Regret is another]].

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*''Film/TheWomanKing'':
**For Nanisca, should a person's ascribed status determine their right to the monarchy? If not, what controversies could stem from the ascension?
**For Nawi, the journey toward attaining one's optimal self by rejecting their pain. If someone has nothing better to live for, then is the path of the soldier the best option they have?
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* Biographical drama ''Film/ShatteredGlass'' has OldMediaPlayingCatchUp as its major theme. The film's antagonist, Stephen Glass, works for the ''New Republic'', a veritable old stalwart of print media, with a long and proud (if slightly snobby) tradition of being, among other things, "the in-flight magazine of UsefulNotes/AirForceOne" and a distinguished reputation for accuracy and honesty. They are contrasted with Forbes Digital Tool, a then-young digital magazine that is initially wary of taking them on. When the Forbes journalists some research into "Hack Heaven" for a follow-up article (via a basic search for "Jukt Micronics"[[note]]the company that had been allegedly hacked in Glass' fabricated story[[/note]]) and [[SpottingTheThread find no evidence the company exists]], they quickly find out that the ''New Republic'' and its traditions are completely ill-equipped to handle Glass' deception. In RealLife, the whole episode actually was one of the key moments that established online media as a serious competitor to traditional print media rather than just a novelty.
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* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'':
** Struggling with poverty, loneliness, or other hardships, and finding ways to solve or escape from these problems.
** EvilIsNotAToy. And if you make a DealWithTheDevil, expect that Devil to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor demand that you pay a horribly personal cost for doing business with him]].
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** In addition to the above political themes, each film explores an aspect of the human psyche and condition. ''Begins'' is about fear: it's the ubiquitous state of the general populace, and used as a weapon by all three principle villains (Falcone, Crane and Ra's al Ghul), as well as by Batman himself. ''Dark Knight'' is about freedom and responsibility, order and chaos, whether it's best to be TheFettered or TheUnfettered. And ''Rises'' is about truth, trust, and pain: every lie and deception carried out in the course of the series contributes to making the situation much worse, and revealing the truth provides the steps to improving matters. Bane is a villain defined by the physical pain he feels, contrasted to the psychological pain Batman feels. Significantly, by the end of the film every main character knows Batman's true identity.

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** In addition to the above political themes, each film explores an aspect of the human psyche and condition. ''Begins'' is about fear: it's the ubiquitous state of the general populace, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-PfEE5kveE used as a weapon by all three principle villains (Falcone, Crane and Ra's al Ghul), as well as by Batman himself.himself, all in different and opposing ways]]. ''Dark Knight'' is about freedom and responsibility, order and chaos, whether it's best to be TheFettered or TheUnfettered. And ''Rises'' is about truth, trust, and pain: every lie and deception carried out in the course of the series contributes to making the situation much worse, and revealing the truth provides the steps to improving matters. Bane is a villain defined by the physical pain he feels, contrasted to the psychological pain Batman feels. Significantly, by the end of the film every main character knows Batman's true identity.
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** Putting wealth and power against simplicity and honesty.

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*** Don't try to be a hero, just have faith that will put you where you need to be and you'll end up all right.

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*** Don't try to be Doing the right thing is more important than being glorified as a hero, just have faith that will put you where you need to be and you'll end up all right.hero.


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*** People are defined by their choices, not their lineage.
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* ''Film/TheRock'': The power of the will.

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** The cost of serving your country.

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